The Health Career Collaborative is an initiative by the American College of Surgeons that seeks to provide mentorship, an engaging health curriculum, and exposure to health careers to high school students from low-income, underrepresented minority communities. Spread across three years of carefully constructed programming, the Health Career Collaborative model offers an approach to capture students and spark excitement in the tenth grade, deepen specific knowledge and insights in the eleventh grade, and then apply the experience and understanding in community health leadership roles in the twelfth grade. The program is directed by medical students under the supervision of the Outreach team. The inaugural cohort is composed of thirty 10th grade scholars at Jack Yates High School with medical students serving as year-long mentors.

The Health Career Symposium is an event created in partnership with the Fertitta Family College of Medicine, the UH STEM Center and Memorial Hermann. This virtual event includes information and activity sessions for students about a variety of health careers with the goal of exposing students to the many possibilities of work in the hospital setting. The event provides information sessions for parents about undergraduate college admissions, health careers, pathways to medical or nursing school, and other resources.